VEON Ltd., a digital operator, provides telecommunications and digital services to corporate and individual customers in Pakistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Bangladesh. The company offers fixed-line telecommunication services using fiber optic networks; mobile telecommunications services under prepaid and postpaid subscriptions, including value added and call completion, national and international roaming, wireless Internet access, mobile financial, and mobile bundle services; cross-border …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 88.0% (top 2%) and operating margin at 32.7% (top 4%) indicate strong pricing power.
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.74), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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VEON Ltd. ranks #11 of 56
scored companies in Telecom Services by moat score — the top 20%.
The widest moat in the group is Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM)
at 76/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near VEON in Telecom Services
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 55
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 57
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 71
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 54
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 84
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
VEON Ltd. (VEON) scores 69 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #11 of 56 scored companies in Telecom Services, the top 20%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 59 companies in Telecom Services. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (88/100) and its weakest is Resilience (54/100).
How does VEON Ltd. compare with other Telecom Services companies?
VEON Ltd. ranks #11 of 56 scored companies in Telecom Services by moat score. The widest moat in Telecom Services is Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM) at 76/100. The companies ranked closest are America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V. (AMX) at 69 just above it and Telefonica Brasil S.A. (VIV) at 69 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 59 companies in Telecom Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is VEON Ltd. scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for VEON Ltd.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and VEON scores: Pricing Power (88), Cost Advantage (55), Customer Stickiness (57), Capital Efficiency (71), Resilience (54), Scale & Market Position (84). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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